[1] It is a spin-off title of The Oregon Trail series, featuring cities of the Classical Mayan civilization.

The player is sent to cycle through the jungles to find and recover the code pieces with a limited time before a meteor shower impact.

In the Explore mode, the player travels around the Mayan ruins to answer the questions of interested contacts before the rainy season begins.

The player must maneuver the bike in a 3D scrolling road environment without going off the edge while avoiding pot holes, logs and other obstacles along the way.

[3][4] MECC used the team's video and photographs to produce the visual assets in the educational adventure game.

[10] School Library Journal identified a weakness of having to have an intimate knowledge of the user manual before being able to competently understand the game mechanics.

[11] Other quests were also carried out, including AustraliaQuest, IslandQuest, AfricaQuest, AsiaQuest, AmericaQuest, GalapagosQuest, and, GreeceQuest.

[12][13][14][15] The paper Making Connections: Building Family Literacy through Technology conducted research that found parents who experience MayaQuest recommended that their kids instead play a game based on the Aztec civilization due to the perception that they contributed more to contemporary culture.